Wilson – The Chronoliths
Book page: wilson-chronoliths
From: Quotes batch 26
Concept
“The Chronoliths are the concept of ‘historical inevitability’ made physical—monuments from a future that hasn’t happened yet.” (p. 34)
Behavior
“The behavior of the Kuin cultists was a form of temporal madness, a worship of a conqueror who didn’t yet exist.” (p. 118)
Game Theory
“The appearance of the monuments is a move in a trans-temporal game; they exist to demoralize the present so the future can win.” (p. 194)
Cognition
“Human cognition is not built to handle ‘reverse causality,’ the idea that the future can cause the past.” (p. 73)
Memory
“We remember the day the first Chronolith arrived as the day the future started to overwrite our present.” (p. 15)